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Criminological Highlights: Children and Youth, Volume 4 Issue 3

Publication year: 2017 | Cataloged on: Dec 21, 2016

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Criminological Highlights
is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published.

Should cities invest in ‘streetworkers’ to help get people to quit being gang members?

What should we think about when creating programs to help ex-prisoners re-enter society?

Why can’t we assume that a crime prevention program that has been shown to be effective will, in fact, be effective when implemented in a new setting?

How are the experience of debt and crime related?

Do after-school programs for youths reduce crime?

Can street crime be substantially reduced by implementing a policy that encourages ‘stop, question, and frisks’ of ordinary citizens?

These summaries of high quality, policy related, published research are produced by the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. The Children and Youth edition constitutes a selection of these summaries (from the full edition) chosen by researchers at the National Center for Juvenile Justice and the University of Toronto. It is designed for those people especially interested in matters related to children and youth. Each issue of the Children and Youth edition contains "Headlines and Conclusions" for each of 6 articles, followed by one-page summaries of each article.

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The National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), located in Pittsburgh, PA. is the research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and is the oldest juvenile justice research group in the United States, having conducted national and sub-national studies on crime and delinquency since 1973.